1789.] TO HUMPHRY MARSHALL. 55] 



" Quadrupeds, birds, insects, worms or serpents, the last of which 

 may be preserved in spirit of wine; minerals, seeds, and plants, 

 particularly that plant called Dioncea muscipula, which is tumid 

 in low marshy places in South Carolina. For such articles we shall 

 be willing to pay the customary price, or return the value of them 

 in such plants as we are in possession of; a catalogue of which we 

 now send you. 



"If any gentlemen of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia 

 are willing to enter on such a friendly intercourse with the Royal 

 Museum of the Grand Duke, they will please address their letters 

 to Monsieur L'Abbe Fontana, a Florence.'''' 



Respected Friend : 



The above is a translation of a letter from the Abbe Foxtaxa. 

 I have taken the earliest opportunity of sending it to you, in 

 which I have been in some degree influenced by the necessity of 

 informing you, that Mr. Williams will sail by the loth of next 

 month. You will be the best judge what plants, or other natural 

 productions, may with safety be sent by the present opportunity. 



I wish you to write to the Abbe. Give him such information as 



He was a Senator from Pennsylvania, in the Congress of the United States, from 

 1801 to March 1807. In 1810, he visited England as formerly France with 

 the same philanthropic desire of preserving peace between the two countries. 

 Here, though he failed in effecting the good which he had so much at heart, yet 

 his reception by men of the highest respectability of both parties was highly 

 nattering. He was exceedingly grieved at the war which followed. His health 

 gradually declined for some years, and he died April 9, 1821. 



Mr. Dupoxceau said of him : " And art thou too gone ? friend of man '. friend 

 of peace ! friend of science ! Thou whose persuasive accents could still the angry 

 passions of the rulers of men, and dispose their minds to listen to the voice of 

 reason and justice."' 



He was an active member of the Agricultural and Philosophical Societies ; and 

 published experiments on gypsum and on the rotation of crops. Encpcl. . 1 ana. 



spondence with foreign governments or their agents, in order to influence their 

 conduct in relation to the United States," &c. It is remarkable that the de I 

 letter of this obnoxious statute was raked up. in the U. S. Senate, nearly half a 

 century afterwards, by one of the "Democracy" par exi with a view to 



apply it's penalties to the worthy gentleman who humanely persisted in oej 

 tiating a peace with unhappy, prostrate Mexico even after hi I l>een 



revoked by the administration which sent him, but which dared not reject the 

 treaty thus concluded ! 



